New Repos, High Hopes, Every Time

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New Repos, High Hopes, Every Time

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Ah yes, the grand delusion of personal significance. On the left, we have the magnificent tower of "ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE" – an imposing, complex structure representing the collective achievement of thousands of developers. And then there's "Your GitHub" – a single, pathetic vertical line that couldn't support a digital hamster wheel.

The perfect visualization of that moment when you realize your "revolutionary" side project is just another sad little toothpick in the vast landscape of actual engineering. Yet somehow we all wake up Monday morning convinced this repo will be different.

Nothing quite captures the developer experience like the cognitive dissonance between what we think we're building and the digital equivalent of a stick figure drawing we actually produce.

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